Grand Rapids Properties I, LLC

The Brix at Midtown

Lord Aeck Sargent is designing a 287-unit residential apartment building in Grand Rapids. The Brix at Midtown, located along the city’s Medical Mile, targets young professionals and students.

The Medical Mile is home to Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, Grand Valley State University’s Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences, Spectrum Health’s downtown hospital campus and clinics, and the Van Andel Research Institute. The BRIX offers a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom market rate and student apartments and provide such amenities as a fitness center, clubhouse, business lounge, enclosed courtyard with fireplaces and a hot tub and two dog-walk parks. The 427,483 SF project also includes a 320-space, four-story parking garage. It is slated for completion in early 2017.

LAS is also providing landscape architecture services for this project, focusing on not only the courtyard, but also the streetscape to ensure it fits with Grand Rapids’ Michigan Street Corridor Plan, which provides a mix of bus transportation, bicycle lanes and sidewalks along Michigan Street.